RE: When the AI wakes up the first thing it will do is...
October 13, 2018 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2018 at 10:39 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(October 13, 2018 at 8:44 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(October 13, 2018 at 6:15 am)Mathilda Wrote: The whole idea of an AI existing in the data realm of the Internet is implausible. Because if it isn't embodied in the real world then that data will be meaningless to it.
Why can’t Data be meaningful to it through some pre-defined software algorithms and objective?
Searle's Chinese room problem.
Imagine I developed a software algorithm for passing the Turing test in Chinese. I then stuck you in a box and gave you the algorithm so you are in effect the computer. Then native Chinese speakers come along and pass in Chinese text to you. You look up the rules of the algorithm and pass out the correct response. The users then go away satisfied that you genuinely understand Chinese. Except you don't because you don't use the Chinese language for yourself in the outside world.
In a data realm, all any software algorithm can do would be to look for statistical relationships and patterns in the data. But it would not know or understand how the data pertains to in the outside world because it is not itself embodied in the outside world, or in any world in which meaningful comparisons can be made.
